Grammacephalus kempi (Singh Pruthi)

Shah, Bismillah, Naveed, Hassan & Duan, Yani, 2019, Taxonomic review of the leafhopper genus Grammacephalus Haupt (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Scaphoideini) with description of a new species from Pakistan, Zootaxa 4688 (1), pp. 71-85 : 74

Grammacephalus kempi (Singh Pruthi)

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Platymetopius kempi Singh Pruthi, 1934: 28 .

Grammacephalus kempi, Viraktamath, 1981: 9 .

Material examined. No specimen examined.

Remarks. G. kempi can be readily distinguished from other members of the genus by the longer crown with some partial longitudinal stripes and a larger pale irregular area preapically, the serrate male pygofer processs, the apically upturned subgenital plate, the denticulate style apex, the footlike apex of the aedeagus and the female 7 th sternum with lateral lobes surpassing the 8 th sternite. This species has no close relative in the genus.

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FIGURE 6. Grammacephalus kempi (Pruthi). (after Viraktamath, 1981) A: head and thorax; B: female abdominal end, ventral view; C: male pygofer, lateral view, lectotype; D: male pygofer paralectotype at lateral; E: male pygofer, lectotype, dorsal process; F: male pygofer, paralectotype, caudal process; G: valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; H: style and connective; I: aedeagus, lateral view; J: aedeagus, caudal view.